by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 21, 2022 | heart, mind, spiritual battle
from Joni Eareckson Tada: “Spiritual leprosy: It is when your soul becomes hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. It is when you spiritually lose all sensation of pain, especially things that pain God. It’s where you become actually dull and deadened to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 18, 2022 | sanctification, scripture
Joni Eareckson Tada writes in her online devotional from 8/18/2014: Experiencing Christ “I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 4, 2022 | Suffering
Joni Eareckson Tada makes a point here about the role that suffering can play in our lives. A pastor friend had done his doctoral paper on how suffering brings people to God. While I don’t believe God BRINGS the suffering, I do believe that there is plenty of it...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 25, 2022 | action
When I complain about small and inconsequential obstacles, I am reminded of Joni Eareckson Tada, confined to a wheelchair since her teen years, a quadriplegic, and yet she perseveres in kingdom work. I want to spend my last ounce of energy on the last quarter mile,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 5, 2022 | decisions
Reflection on “Choices”………….. The book of Joshua is one I have spent a lot of time in. Joshua’s life, even as a young man in service to Moses, showed wise choices. “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will...
